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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the children respond to their life?
(a) They accept the neccessity of it.
(b) They cry.
(c) They are bored.
(d) They rebel and sometimes sneak out.

2. What is one thing that makes Anita realize Oscar is right about their country?
(a) The way her father and mother speak in low tones all the time.
(b) The way she has to erase her diary.
(c) The way the Secret Police stand on every street corner.
(d) The way the teachers never veer from planned lessons.

3. How does Anita feel when Sammy has someone visit him?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Excluded.

4. Why does Anita's mother say she and Anita's father are staying in the Dominican Republic?
(a) To try to sell the business.
(b) For Anita's father to run for public office.
(c) To wait for Anita's mother to give birth.
(d) To fight against the things that are wrong.

5. Why do the teacher and the two visitors step into the hallway?
(a) The classroom is very noisy.
(b) To talk in privacy.
(c) So the students can go on with their classwork.
(d) So the teacher can show the new boy his correct classroom.

6. How does Anita's mother talk to Anita for the first time?
(a) As an adult.
(b) As a dissatisfied wife.
(c) As a disappointed mother.
(d) As a frightened woman.

7. What does Anita realize when she looks inside?
(a) The well is drying.
(b) The chickens are almost as cowed as the humans.
(c) Her uncle is there.
(d) Her cousin who went away with her uncle.

8. What does Oscar talk about concerning the country?
(a) Freeing it.
(b) The class structure that keeps people poor.
(c) The lack of a good educational system.
(d) Its noble history.

9. What are the men in dark glasses using as an excuse to search the compound?
(a) The disappearance of Carla's family.
(b) That someone reported gun shots coming from the compound.
(c) The fact that someone has made out-of-country phone calls from their home.
(d) That someone reported smoke coming from the compound.

10. Who is Mr. Washburn?
(a) A U.S. military officer.
(b) A man from the British consulate.
(c) A man from the American embassy.
(d) A CIA agent.

11. What is one thing Anita learns about their country's leader?
(a) He is cruel.
(b) He is hypocritical.
(c) He has no conscience.
(d) He is arrogant.

12. Why does Anita write with a pencil at times?
(a) So she can quickly erase.
(b) Carla's family moves constantly, so she writes their address in pencil.
(c) Some times it is the only writing instrument in the house.
(d) She is not good at math and frequently has to erase her work.

13. When was school supposed to start back up again?
(a) January 3.
(b) January 9.
(c) January 15.
(d) February 1.

14. What do Carla and Anita find difficult?
(a) To choose items for the valise.
(b) To leave each other.
(c) To travel so far by train.
(d) To attend different schools.

15. What happens when word is taken to Tony's house that Mr. Smith's friends are there?
(a) Nothing because Tony has already been smuggled into the United States.
(b) Everyone disperses.
(c) Tony goes down a trap door in the cellar.
(d) Tony runs and hides in the Americans' home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher tell Carla to do?

2. What is the weather like?

3. What does Lucinda tell Susie about her upcoming birthday?

4. What do the men in the Volkwagons want?

5. What does Anita ask Chucha about her cousins?

(see the answer keys)

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